Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… disentangle himself, which surrounds with subtlest intertwine the slenderest fibres of his Being […] the conspiration of influences is no mere outward nor contingent Thing, that rather this necessity is himself […] What then remains! O the … in himself a new man.’ (CN III, 4109) Yet, instead of seeing them as ‘outward’ things, man should reflect upon these influences as being part of himself, as constituting his human nature. As such, knowing one’s social and natural …
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